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Bulgaria’s protests, inspections against cheap vegetable imports continue

July 4, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgarian vegetable producers are continuing their protest campaign against cheap imported vegetables from neighbouring countries Romania, Macedonia, Turkey and Greece

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian tobacco producers plan protest against lack of EU funding

July 3, 2013July 3, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgarian tobacco producers are planning large-scale national protests in the week beginning July 8 because the country has not secured

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Business 

Romanian-Bulgarian trade ‘to surpass three billion euro this year’

July 3, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Trade between Romania and Bulgaria is expected to total more than three billion euro in 2013, Bronislav Denev, economic advisor

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Europe 

Kosovo president Jahjaga decrees November 3 as local government election date

July 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo

The President of the Republic of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga has officially announced November 3 as the date in which local

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Business 

Bulgarian vegetable and fruit producers, traders protest against cheap imports

July 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s Agriculture and Food Ministry is to propose setting up mobile squads to control imports of vegetables from Macedonia, minister

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Business 

Greek banks to bid for Hellenic Postbank as sale draws closer

July 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

A host of interested buyers are queuing up to purchase Greece’s Hellenic Postbank. The Postbank is fully owned by the

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Europe 

EU urges Serbia to persist in dialogue with Priština

July 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

President of the European Union Council Herman Van Rompuy and Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt congratulated Serbia on the “historical”

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Perspectives 

Will Siderov be unhorsed?

July 2, 2013October 30, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Volen Siderov

On a day commemorating Bulgarian national hero Hristo Botev, who died during the struggle for liberation from Ottoman rule, the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ruling parties delay resolution of electricity price

June 28, 2013July 10, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Peevski protests

In the latest sitting of Bulgaria’s half-empty Parliament, the parties supporting the government voted to defer resolution of the issue

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